Cigarette holder



L. 1. REMY.

` CIGARETTE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT- 14. |921.

RER/@mea Nov. 7,1922

. tonally retained simply by being Patented Nov. V, 1922.

LOUIS J'. REMY, 01E' PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIGARETTE HOLDER.

Application led October 14, 1921. Serial No. 507,637.

To all who/m, it 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, Louis J. REMY, a citizen of the United States residing in the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Cigarette Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of cigarette holders of the stump-ejecting type, and its utility, as is usual in devices of this class, is to permit the smoker to smoke the cigarette until it has been almost entirely consumed, before ejecting the butt or stump.

The object of my lnvention, broadly expressed, is the'manufacture of a cigarette holder of a very simple and inexpensive character, the construction of which is such that the inner end of the cigarette is fricforced into the holder, the smoke from whlch while retained is prevented from escaping, and the ejection of which is readily effected.

Wlth the foregoing general objects in View, my invention comprehends a clgarette holder and stump-ejector of the character typically illustrated in the accompanying drawings and hereinafter described, the particular subject-matter I claim as novel being denitely specified in the claims.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 represents a plan view of a holder embodying my invention with a cigerette in it.

Figure 2 representsa side elevation of the holder of- Figure 1 withoutthe cigarette.

Figure 3 represents a transverse section of the holder on the line 3 3 of Figure2.

Figure 4 represents a longitudinal, central, sectional view through the holder on the line 4 4 of Figure 2, and also illustrates, partly in section and partly in dotted lines, a cigarette in place as in Figure 1. In this View the ejecting cross bar is in its inner position and the inner end of the cigarette in place and in engagement with it.

Figure 5 represents a view similar. to Fig` ure 2, except that the sliding ring of Figure 2 is omitted and the ejecting bar shown as formed with thumb ends.

Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 4, with the ejecting bar in the position it occupies after the stump has been expelled.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings,

1 designates the body proper of the holder which is preferably of the usual tapering form, formed with the usual mouth-plece 2, and composed of amber, horn or other preferred material.

The outer or cigarette-receiving end of the holder is preferably externally cylindric, and, internally, in order to perform its holding functlon, preferably likewise cylindric, and in the form, as best shown in Figures 4 and-6, of a socket or recess 3 into which the lnner end of the cigarette 12 is adapted to be inserted and within which it is ti htly forced so as to be slightly expanded as ereinafter explained, and securely held in place.

4 designates the usual draft passage which extends from and through the mouthpiece to within a preferably frusto-conical smoke chamber 5, or when such chamber is not formed within the holder, into and through the squared inner end of the socket 3, which end I have designated by dotted lines 6 in Figure 6.

7 .designates a pair of counterpart, longitudlnally extending, oppositely disposed, parallel slots, through which pass the opposite ends 8 of an ej ecting cross bar 9, preferably of gold, silver, platinum, aluminum, or other metal, and preferably also of the outwardly curved outline indicated in Figures 4 and 6. These slots extend a distance stopping just short of the outer end of the holder and of the inner aperture of the draft passage.

Thel opposite ends of the ejecting .cross bar extend throu h and slightly beyond the slots, and are eit er, as in the construction illustrated `in Figures 1 to 4, and Figure 6, secured to a closely fitting sliding ring 10, of gold, silver, platinum, aluminum, or other preferred metal, which is mounted upon the exterior of the outer end of the body of the holder over the socket,-or, if desired, are upset or swaged to form thumb buttons 11, as illustrated in Figure 5.

Obviously, through the manual end-forend manipulation of the sliding ring or of the buttons, the ejecting cross bar can be moved in or out with respect to the slots and socket of the body of the holder.

In the introduction of the inner end of the. cigarette to within the socket of the holder, theejecting bar, should it be in its outer position, is either forced into its inner position by the introduction of the cigarette itself, or is first manually moved into that position.

In the practical use of my holder, -the stump end -of the cigarette is introduced lnto the socket with such force as to cause its 1nner end to a certain extent to spread itself over the ejecting cross bar so as to be to a degree fastened upon it and spread or expanded within the socket and by such spreading frictionally held in place.

This would be true whether the cross bar were straight or outwardly curved, but the result of the expanding of the inner end of the cigarette is more easily secured by the curved form illustrated in Figures 4 and 6 and by making the bar narrower on its front face than at its back.

When the cigarette has thus been wedged in place and without other means of closure, the slots are internally closed, so thatit is impossible either for air to 'be sucked in through, or for smoke to be expelled from, them. In other words, both slots are sealed by the cigarette itself and not by other means of closure.

Obviously, in the use of the device, no air can be drawn in through the draft passage except that which has first passed through the cigarette, the ejecting bar not, of course, interfering with the draft.

Obviously, further, after the cigarette has been smoked down to the outer end of the holder so as to have been almost entirely consumed, the ejection or dislodgment of the stump is effected by forcing forward the ejecting-bar by the manual forward movement of the attached ring or of the button ends of the ejecting cross bar itself.

Modifications in the details of construction, dimensions and proportions of the parts, may, of course, be made without departure from the scope of my invention as recited in the following claims. l

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A cigarette holder which embodies a socket, a draft passage, opposite, longitudinally extending slots, an ejecting bar which passes through said socket and said slots, and means exterior of the holder connected with said ejeoting bar for manually effecting its in and out movement.

2. A cigarette holder which embodies within its outer end a socket, a draft passage, a pair of lopposite longitudinally extending, parallel slots, a transverse ejectmg cross bar which passes through said socket and said slots, and a sliding ring exterior of the holder connected with the ends 0f said cjecting bar for manually effecting its in and out movement.

3. A cigarette holder which embodies within its outer end a socket,-a draft passage,-a pair of opposite, longitudinally extending, parallel slots which extend through the holder and which stop short of the outer end of the holder and terminate at the inner end of the socket,-a transverse ejecting cross bar which passes through said socket and said slots and is limited in its in and out movement by the ends of the slots,-and means exterior of the holder connected with said ejecting bar for manually effecting its in and out movement, whereby when the cigarette is forced into the socket and against and upon the ejecting bar, its inner end spreads laterally over said bar within the socket so 'as to insure the frictional contact and retention of the cigarette within the socket.

4. A cigarette holder which embodies within its outer end a socket,-a draft passage within the holden-a pair of opposite, longitudinally extending, parallel slots which extend through the holder and which stop short of the outer end of the holder and terminate at the inner end of the socket,- a transverse ejecting bar which passes through said socket and said slots and is limited in its in and out movement by the ends of the slots,-and a sliding ring exterior of the holder connected with the ends of said ejecting bar for manually elfecting its in and out movement, whereby when the cigarette is forced into the socket and against and upon the ejecting bar, its inner end spreads laterally over said bar within the socket so as to insure the frictional contact and retention of the cigarette within the socket.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have hereunto signed my name this twelfth day of October, 1921.

y LOUIS J. REMY.

In the presence of- J. BoNsALL TAILOR,

O. D. MCVAY. 

